Testosterone

We are seeing more studies showing that hormone replacement in BOTH men and women, is not only safe, but also protective. A new scientific study demonstrates that testosterone therapy in generally healthy men (to normalize their T blood levels closer to more youthful levels) is NOT harmful and even safer than NOT taking it. This is the point that integrative doctors have been trying to share with the public and have been seeing with their patient populations on hormone replacement for the last 50 years. Taking hormone replacement, based on testing and individual need and response, is usually safer, than not [...]

Defending Testosterone, Debunking the Myths. This is the name of an article that came out June 4, 2015, in Medscape, by Abraham Morgentaler MD, a physician and researcher looking at testosterone every which way for decades. Dr. Morgentaler says that the effects of low testosterone called "hypogonadism" or "low T" and the benefits of treatment with T has been widely practiced for many years since testosterone replacement was first synthesized in 1935.  But controversy has surrounded T therapy all these years. This shadow of murk over T replacement was based on a single report, later shown to be unreliable, that testosterone [...]

An article came out on March 3 2015, in Medscape, an online journal that goes out to many million medical providers, entitled, Testosterone Labels Must Now Note CV (cardiovascular) and Stroke Risks, FDA Says. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now require makers of testosterone products to include two statements on each label. Clearly describe the “approved” uses of these medications. Clearly present the warning that use of this product possibly increases the risk of heart attacks and strokes. What did the FDA base these statements on? A team of experts wanted to know. Dr. A. Morgentaler, a urologist from [...]